By far the scariest insect to come across. But not like you may think! This is the arthopluera, a giant prehistoric centipede, that’s ready to make your life miserable. So let’s talk about them shall we? I’ll list what I’ll be talking about, then we can jump in! What’s they look like, How to tame them, what maps their on, and what they’re good for! Alright now let’s get started!

Appearance: Segmented plates that have a curved spike on both sides of each segment, about half the size of the player. And everything else is a cross between a millipede and a centipede.

Taming! Taming one is very simple, Grab spoiled meat, grab a flyer (or if you don’t have one bug spray) Pick up the arthro with a flyer, and drop it into a nearby body of water. Don’t worry, These creatures can’t drown, also putting it into the water seems to just blind it, making it passive unless it exits the water. While it’s in the water, feed it the spoiled meat until it tames. Whistle the arthro to follow you out of the water and boom, u got a arthro!

Maps: Extinction, The island, Scorched Earth, Crystal Isles, Ragnorak, Lost island. These maps I know have arthro.

This tame excels at Pvp, Almost being a pointless tame on pve due to its lack of weight, speed and attacks. Making this tame a must have war mount, why? Arthros have acidic blood, if somebody were to hit you with a melee weapon, it would break. This isn’t effective against ranged weapons as they take 15-25% more dmg from ranged weapons. However once this tame gets close to the enemy base it can just eat its way through. Tek base? Hardly think so, Metal superfortress? Not anymore. Simply get rid of the turrets, and the arthro can wreck the entire base. Chewing through vaults, walls, you name it it could destroy it. Is there a hard to reach exposed geny? Unfortunate. But never fear, the arthro doubles a catapult. Shooting it’s acidic blood like artillery!

Thx for reading! I’ll be working on tips for other pvp mounts!

Killed the spider boss with this handy boys

You And put it on aggressive, and it will become a living turret

They take tripled damage from weapons like longnecks, don’t use melee or whatever ur using will get destroyed. Get out ur longneck and aim for its head, 1 or 2 shots should do it

PSA (public service announcement) that arthros have NO WEIGHT, hear that? NO WEIGHT. But on mobile this is easily counter-balanced by making it the land Itchysaurus so that means cave creatures and literally anything else just don't care about you, even if u hit them lol

Make sure you don't wear armor around them

Because they will destroy it. Use bug repellent so they don't automatically attack you. If you need spoiled meat make sure you have each raw meat split up individually that way once 5 mins passes by it all spoils at once

One of the best raiding dino's on the island, if not the best. It can destroy any material.

By the way, they are on mobile, unfortunately

I recently constructed a 1x8 pen with walls in ARK Ascended, and I found an effective way to tame an Arthro. I used my Argent 🦅 to transport it inside the pen. After placing it in the enclosure, I patiently waited, and the Arthro naturally turned about 90 degrees, which caused it to become stuck. This allowed me to easily tame it using spoiled meat from a spot near the back end of the Arthro, right along the edge of the wall. This method proved to be a straightforward approach, eliminating the need to create bug repellent or worry about potential attacks. Overall, it was a simple and effective trap design!

Arrows do an INCREDIBLE amount of damage, so use those instead of letting it destroy your melee weapons!!! 🗡🏹

I will make a list of pros and cons about this creature:

Pros:

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING will aggro to you, even if you attack it

Inflicts torpor

Can melt armor, harvest dead bodies from afar with acid ball

Swims the same speed as walk

Cons:

Terrible weight (100) you're going to have to stuff your whole inventory somewhere, and maybe even your armor

Saddle requires 35 obsidian

Something I've noticed:

Wild ones can deal constant (like .5 sec between attacks) damage to you, but tamed ones, not even mounted ones can, and I get this needs to be balanced, but make it only work on wild creatures or something, I would love to see it work

Cheat The yeti cave on mobile by doing it on an arthro, almost nothing attacks them

Good luck

Go in a cave with water if they are under water you can tame without them agroin you just use a scuba tank

Don't attack with sword or it broken soon

Does anybody know where to find these on ark mobile i would like one for protection when scouting and i havent found any yet.

It's can destroy tek walls. useful for tek raids

They actually don't deal torpor with their mouth.

I find the best way to knock these out and tame them is to simply lead them into the water and grapple to them and they instantly de-aggro and it’s just a matter of feeding it. It has worked many times. Also no ghillie or bug repellent required 👍

Remember these guys can melt through your armor! try to avoid fighting them one on one or attempt to shoot it from far away.

Lol the mr. wick and dog story got me. Anyways back to all seriousness unless u have armor and a sword or guns DO NOT ENGAGE. This beast will knock u out in like 1 bite and kills in like 3 or 4